Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History

This collection constitutes the definitive guide for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying modern military history. It provides the reader with a clear and up-to-date survey of the significant debates, interpretations and historiographical shifts for a series of key themes in military history, ranging from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and across the technological, political, social, and cultural dimensions of military history.

Preface--M.Hughes & W.Philpott * Military Revolutions and Military History--L.Henninger * Warfare and the Rise of the State--A.James * War and Society--H.McCartney * Military Thought--N.Gardner * Tactics, Operations and Strategy: The evolution of Land Warfare from Machiavelli to Desert Storm--W.Chinn * Low-Intensity Conflicts, Insurgency, Terrorism and Revolutionary War--J.Cann * Total War--W.Philpott * Air Power--J.Buckley * Naval Warfare--A.Lambert * Non-European Warfare--B.Vandervort * Science, Technology and War--M.Hughes * New Approaches to War--J.Bourke